Jo Swinson Quotes

For me, 'revolution' simply means radical change.

Many years before I had left a beautiful country and a rich nation and I returned to that country six years later to find it fundamentally changed and in a state of upheaval, and in great spiritual and material need.

That's the method: restructure the world we live in in some way, then see what happens.

In politics, reform never comes before crisis.

Broken institutions are an opportunity rather than a time to go home.

There is a deep desire to change the power structure.

Change is inscribed in noise faster than it transforms society.

You need a real crisis before you have reforms.

Creating deep and meaningful change in this country takes time - years and sometimes decades.

I think, with TG, in our own ways, we have been committed to the idea of evolution on some level and change on some level - that human behaviour may not be changeable, but one has to try and be optimistic and work towards content that might signify change.

I always had a desire to see change and be part of it.

Business as usual doesn't work, that we're in a time where we have to rethink a lot of the basic ground rules and assumptions of our civilizations.

What is noise to the old order is harmony to the new.

We have not come into politics with 'Badle ki Bhavna' but we have come with 'Badlav Ki Bhavna'.

A revolution that does not produce a new space has not realized its full potential

Revolution is not the uprising against preexisting order, but the setting up of a new order contradictory to the traditional one

I want to share with you my belief in your power to change this country and this world.

Only a crisis—actual or perceived—produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around.

The world hasn't ended, but the world as we know it has-even if we don't quite know it yet.

Every revolution begins as consciousness because some group of people has to imagine change. You have to have the idea of change or at least have a hope before you can proceed. And that stage goes very quickly because a contagion of consciousness is within your control. But when you get to the stage of institutional change, it becomes a much slower process.

You have a limited time to stay on earth. You must try to use that period for the purpose of transforming your country into what you desire it to be: a democratic, non-racial, non-sexist country. And that is a great task.

Recovery is an acceptance that your life is in shambles and you have to change it.

We do need great change in Burma. We are trying to build a new society, a society where basic human rights are respected, and where our people enjoy all the benefits of democratic institutions.

Change is not always accomplished peacefully, but that does not make it disadventageous.

Change has no constituency and a perceived revolution has even less.